Facilitating Norms and Beliefs Concerning Delinquency among Kahnouj Teenagers: A Qualitative Investigation

This study aims to identify and understand facilitating environment of delinquency among the Kahnouj teenagers. Research methodology was based on grounded theory. The participants included 30 teenagers from Kahnouj which were selected via purposive sampling, maximum variation strategy and theoretical sampling. Data collected by in-depth semi structure interview.    Data analyzed through triple coding strategies, open, axial and selective. Data analysis culminated in 9 categories and a core category which are, docking area and easy access, crime generative context and socialization of the crime, perception of deprivation and underdevelopment, identifying lineage, metaphors and myths of delinquency, facilitating common sense, social networks and delinquency reproduction, , status failure and fragile resistance, vague borders of the law and subculture of delinquency. Finally the core category is “constructing and synergy of delinquency.